Animal Adaptations

1. What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survie.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.

This is a period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation
• migration

How do adaptations help animals?

• To hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage

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Which adaptation would NOT help a hawk catch a mouse?

• Hollow Bones 
• Good eye sight
• Talons
• Camouflage

 Which of these BEST describes how some birds survive when the weather gets cold? 

     

•  a.   They store twigs and sticks in their nest 
•  b. They migrate to a warmer climate 
•  c. They grow more feathers to stay warm in the winter 
•  d. They hide in bushes and wait for warm weather 

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Some animals move great distances as the seasons change.  What is this called?

• hibernation
• migration
• habitat
• coloration

What do you call an animal that is hunted by another animal?

• prey
• predator
• producer
• herbivore

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What do you call an animal that only eats other animals?

• herbivore
• prey
• predator
• carnivore

Which animal would hibernate to survive throughout the winter months?

• bear
• deer
• bird
• wolf

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